Jia Tolentino
Staff writer at The New Yorker
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror, and a screenwriter. She was previously deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, studied at the University of Virginia, and received an MFA from the University of Michigan. In 2020 she won a Whiting Award and the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize, and in 2023 she received a National Magazine Award for her writing about the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
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Author of the biweekly “Brooding” column at The Cut, a section of New York magazine
Staff writer at The New Yorker
Sep 28 2026